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Many within the party have become skeptical of candidates who extol a message in the 1980s Reaganomics mold, but have done little while in office to cut spending, tackle the ever-increasing deficit and limit expensive pet projects.A Pew Research Center study of the 2004 presidential vote labeled 9 percent of Americans as economic conservatives: disproportionately active, with 96 percent ultimately heading to the polls, and decidedly Republican, with 92 percent voting to re-elect President Bush.At the time, the group was almost as influential in the GOP as those calling themselves socia
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BEIJING AP 鈥?Chinese health officials defended their search for the source of the COVID-19 virus and lashed out Saturday at the World Health Organization after its leader said Beijing should have shared genetic information earlier.The WHO comments were offensive and disrespectful, said the director of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shen Hongbing. He accused the WHO of attempting to smear China and said it should avoid helping others politicize COVID-19. The global health body director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said March 17聽that newly disclosed genetic material gathered in Wuhan in central China, where the first cases were detected in late 2019, should have been shared three years ago. READ MORE: New COVID origins study links pandemics beginning to animals, not a lab As a responsible country and as scientists, we have always actively shared research results with scientists from around the world, Shen said at a news conference.The origins of COVID-19 are still debated聽and the focus of bitter political dispute.Many scientists believe it jumped from animals to humans at a market in Wuhan, but the city also is home to laborat
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